Presenting the Eagles girls basketball team

ST. JOHN - A photo of the St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse Eagles girls' basketball team arrived after the Winter Sports section was printed, but the staff of the Whitman County Gazette wanted to make sure the student-athletes receive their recognition.

"I think we can attribute the problem to the crazy short season," said Gazette Editor Bill Stevenson. "We've already started working on how to learn from the problem and move forward."

The Gazette is striving to improve sports coverage, the presentation of teams, and their games, he said. Six high schools and combined high school groups with boys and girls basketball teams, plus wrestling, is at least 18 teams. If each team plays twice a week, it's 36 sports stories to cover.

When there are too many sports stories to fit on the physical newspaper pages, they are being posted online at the newspaper website – wcgazette.com.